from Ledger (Knopf, 2020); first appeared in The New Yorker. Used by permission of the author, all rights reserved.

Author

Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield is the author of eight collections of poetry, includingThe Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was long listed for the National Book Award. She served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2012 to 2017.